Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread O. Hartmann
I use OpenOffice 2.3.1 on several hardwareplatforms running FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64 and since I upgraded OpenOffice from OO 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 I have massive problems, rendering OO unusuable! Before doing a PR I would like to aks whethere there is a solution out. Whenever I try to save a document in

Re: Imap authentication

2008-01-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Chris Kottaridis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have been using pop to download email messages. I'd like to switch to imap. My mail server is running FreeBSD 5.3 The imap executable is in /usr/local/libexec and inetd.conf is setup right. I can telnet to port 143 I am talking to the imapd

Re: NFS issues ??

2008-01-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Chris Maness wrote: I am trying to mount a Linux box with NFS from my FreeBSD box, with the command: # mount_nfs4 192.168.1.66:/home/chris/ /mnt/nfs/ where the IP is the Linux box and the share is /home/chris When I run the command I get: mount_nfs4: /mnt/nfs: No such file or directory

Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Xn Nooby
I am having trouble getting X to use a screen resolution that is less than the maximum. When I edit my xorg.conf to add a DefaultDepth and a Mode of 1024x768, it still comes up at 1280x1024. I did not create any modeline entries yet, since I'm not sure how to do that. My GUI (icewm) works, but

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xn I am having trouble getting X to use a screen resolution that is less Xn than the maximum. When I edit my xorg.conf to add a DefaultDepth and Xn a Mode of 1024x768, it still comes up at 1280x1024. I did not Xn create any modeline

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Huff
Philipp Ost writes: Any ideas? This is a serious situation to me, due to the need of a properly working OO :-( No, perhaps using an other word processor (AbiWord, StarOffice). Or going back to OOo 2.3.0... This has been discussed within the last two weeks on the

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Nash Nipples
Dear Xn Nooby, Im not sure if there is such a tool to edit xorg.conf file and limit the maximum resolution. In gnome desktop there is a graphical tool to switch resolution (System - Preferences - Screen Resolution) To make things obvious you will have to take a look at your xorg.conf file

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Xn Nooby
On Jan 1, 2008 10:11 AM, Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xn I am having trouble getting X to use a screen resolution that is less Xn than the maximum. When I edit my xorg.conf to add a DefaultDepth and Xn a Mode of

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Xn Nooby
Here are the values I am experimenting with: The Monitor Section: Section Monitor Identifier Monitor0 VendorName Monitor Vendor ModelNameMonitor Model # Option PreferredMode 1024x768 # HorizSync 24-80 # VertRefresh 56-75 # Option

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Xn Nooby
To make things obvious you will have to take a look at your xorg.conf file Please do change dir to its parent folder (cd /etx/X11/) and run cat xorg.conf | tr -s \n | grep -v # that should make your xorg.conf look simple and clear. Here is mine, which still wont go in to 1024x768 mode:

a customized sysinstall

2008-01-01 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I am looking a way in to integrating a afterinstall scripts/files in to standart FreeBSD sysinstall program. What I think is to add a new distribution (like src,ports,doc,local..) to FreeBS, create ISO and after that run after-install script on the chrooted directory. Can anyone suggest me

Re: a customized sysinstall

2008-01-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Hi, I am looking a way in to integrating a afterinstall scripts/files in to standart FreeBSD sysinstall program. What I think is to add a new distribution (like src,ports,doc,local..) to FreeBS, create ISO and after that run after-install script on the chrooted directory.

Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day ... Yesterday, I setup nagios to do some system monitoring ... installed the latest version from ports into a jail, so that I could easily move it around between machines as I upgrade, without losing data ... after about 30 minutes

abcde and uppercase filenames

2008-01-01 Thread Dave
Hello, Happy New Year. I'm running abcde 2.3.3 port on FreeBSD 6.x. I'm wanting to convert all uppercase paths/filenames in my output from first character uppercase or whatever character is uppercase, to all lowercase. I first uncommented the mungegenre function in

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: To make things obvious you will have to take a look at your xorg.conf file Please do change dir to its parent folder (cd /etx/X11/) and run cat xorg.conf | tr -s \n | grep -v # that should make your xorg.conf look simple and clear.

sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hello, I'm not sure what I did. I've been following instructions (really!) and after following the instructions from here: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html to setup SSL/TLS authentication for mail relaying, my sendmail installation always gives me this very

Re: Nagios + 6.3-RELEASE == Hung Process

2008-01-01 Thread Michael Butler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc G. Fournier wrote: G'day ... Yesterday, I setup nagios to do some system monitoring ... installed the latest version from ports into a jail, so that I could easily move it around between machines as I upgrade, without losing data ...

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Xn Nooby
I was able to temporarily change the resolution using the xrandr -s 1024x768 command - but xvidtune -show still displayed a modeline that begins with 1280x1024. I copied that modeline to my xorg.conf, and manually changed the resolution, but I did not fool it. It was great to see the screen at

Re: Extremely slow authentication via SSH on FreeBSD 6.0

2008-01-01 Thread Forrest Aldrich
First, thank you to others who posted about this issue. I altered /etc/ssh/sshd_config for UseDNS no, and noticed I get the prompt right away, however it still takes about 15 seconds after authentication to get a shell prompt. This is FreeBSD version: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE #7: Sat Dec 22

G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?

2008-01-01 Thread James Jeffery
Sup guys. Hope you all had a new year. I have an old G4 lying about, its got 256mb ram, 733mhz processor. I was wondering, would it be worth setting up the PPC version of FreeBSD (or maybe even OpenBSD, although thats for their mailing list) on it to use as a web server or testing box. The most

Re: NFS issues ??

2008-01-01 Thread Chris Maness
Kris Kennaway wrote: Chris Maness wrote: I am trying to mount a Linux box with NFS from my FreeBSD box, with the command: # mount_nfs4 192.168.1.66:/home/chris/ /mnt/nfs/ where the IP is the Linux box and the share is /home/chris When I run the command I get: mount_nfs4: /mnt/nfs: No such

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Philipp Ost
O. Hartmann wrote: [...] Whenever I try to save a document in OO writer, OO gets stuck and I have to kill it. The document gets saved, but I never can load it again without rendering OO unusuable. Opening M$ Word docs or OO docs doesn't matter. I have similar problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1

Intel 3945 wpi driver doesn't seem to work ('cause of license problems???)

2008-01-01 Thread vittorio
Context: Router ZyXEL ADSL+2 with dhcp up and running Laptop HP Pavillion Entertainment DV6000 intel centrino duo 2GB of memory hpbsd# uname -a FreeBSD hpbsd.vic 7.0-BETA4 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA4 #0: Thu Dec 27 22:18:53 CET 2007     [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/HP03  i386 hpbsd# all wpi's

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xn I was able to temporarily change the resolution using the xrandr -s Xn 1024x768 command - but xvidtune -show still displayed a modeline Xn that begins with 1280x1024. I copied that modeline to my xorg.conf, Xn and manually changed the

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Philipp Ost wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: [...] Whenever I try to save a document in OO writer, OO gets stuck and I have to kill it. The document gets saved, but I never can load it again without rendering OO unusuable. Opening M$ Word docs or OO docs doesn't matter. I have similar problems

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Robert Huff wrote: Philipp Ost writes: Any ideas? This is a serious situation to me, due to the need of a properly working OO :-( No, perhaps using an other word processor (AbiWord, StarOffice). Or going back to OOo 2.3.0... This has been discussed within the last

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Xn Nooby
Hmm..., this is strange. BtW, after adding modeline, you need to restart Xorg. Anyways to get modeline for 1024x768 you can try switching to 'vesa' driver temporarily, extract modeline for 1024x768 From there, and then enter that modeline in xorg.conf. I tried this method when I'm having

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Predrag Punosevac wrote: Philipp Ost wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: [...] Whenever I try to save a document in OO writer, OO gets stuck and I have to kill it. The document gets saved, but I never can load it again without rendering OO unusuable. Opening M$ Word docs or OO docs doesn't matter. I

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
Xn == Xn Nooby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Xn Using the vesa driver worked - I am able to get 1024x768, though the Xn fonts are a little weird. I tried to use the modeline from the vesa Xn driver with nv, but it didn't work. If the nv driver is part of the Xn problem, I will try

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Peter Jeremy
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:41:57AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: This has been discussed within the last two weeks on the openoffice@ list. A message from Peter Jeremy on December 14 contains both information about the cause and a patch. My patch was for a different problem - related to OOo

Howcome mail deletion time varies?

2008-01-01 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I use, for my imap-based mail, a combination of postfix, dovecot, thunderbird, enigmail (for gnupg), and openssl for browser security. When I delete mail messages, the majority of them delete (what seems to me to be) instantaneously, but a small

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Thierry Thomas
Le Mar 1 jan 08 à 21:21:43 +0100, Stephen Montgomery-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] écrivait : My personal wish list is that opencascade builds on FreeBSD-7 with the new stlport, and that octave-forge not be in its current IGNORE state. But I fully appreciate that I must either wait, or help

DigiBoard Classic

2008-01-01 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
Hello All, I have a digiboard classic PCI, and I am trying to build a system to monitor many serial systems (UPSes) using FreeBSD. I cannot find any documentation referring to this driver -- it seems that everything digi related in the BSD tree refers to the intelligent cards, whereas the

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Robert Huff
Peter Jeremy writes: This has been discussed within the last two weeks on the openoffice@ list. A message from Peter Jeremy on December 14 contains both information about the cause and a patch. My patch was for a different problem - related to OOo not opening any files. I'm not

Re: Future development of Jail

2008-01-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You mean like: http://wiki.freebsd.org/JailResourceLimits and: http://docs.freevps.com/doku.php?id=freebsd:index - --On Monday, December 31, 2007 19:10:51 -0800 Karl Triebes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 5:51 PM, Andy

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Chris Whitehouse
O. Hartmann wrote: I use OpenOffice 2.3.1 on several hardwareplatforms running FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64 and since I upgraded OpenOffice from OO 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 I have massive problems, rendering OO unusuable! Before doing a PR I would like to aks whethere there is a solution out. Whenever I try to

Re: Resolution too high with 7-RC1, nVidia, xorg

2008-01-01 Thread Xn Nooby
Well, after 15 hours of experimenting, I have 1024x768 working! Getting PreferredMode to work was the main thing, I think. It was literally on my last try, before I reinstalled Ubuntu, that I got it to work, lol. Maybe these note will be of value to another nooby. thanks again! There 3 things

Changing work directory of port for make

2008-01-01 Thread Chad Kellerman
Hey guys, I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured the /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be plenty. Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for i386, looks like I have to compile it myself. No big deal, except

Re: Changing work directory of port for make

2008-01-01 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 06:35:43PM -0500, Chad Kellerman wrote: Hey guys, I installed Freebsd 7 on a Dell laptop I have. When I configured the /usr partition I only gave it 10GB of space figuring that would be plenty. Well now, since I don't see a pre-compiled version of OpenOffice for

Re: sendmail is broken, how do I fix

2008-01-01 Thread Derek Ragona
At 11:17 AM 1/1/2008, Andrew Falanga wrote: Hello, I'm not sure what I did. I've been following instructions (really!) and after following the instructions from here: http://www.puresimplicity.net/~hemi/freebsd/sendmail.html to setup SSL/TLS authentication for mail relaying, my sendmail

pIII coppermine?

2008-01-01 Thread Chris Maness
I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it would be nice to be able

Re: pIII coppermine?

2008-01-01 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Chris Maness wrote: I have an ABIT VP6 dual socket that I want to use as my FreeBSD server. I only have one CPU installed, and I was told that if I were to add another CPU that the serial numbers of the CPU had to be sequential. Is this true? I see these processors on e-bay for $7 it

Remote control for a multimedia computer

2008-01-01 Thread Joshua Isom
I've been using the computer in my bedroom for watching movies more often lately, and getting out of bed to pause, rewind, and handle volume has gotten more and more annoying. I don't need anything very fancy, but I don't want to do something like use a wireless game controller. I'm not sure

Re: Problems with OpenOffice 2.3.1 on FreeBSD

2008-01-01 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Dienstag, 1. Januar 2008 14:15:40 schrieb O. Hartmann: I use OpenOffice 2.3.1 on several hardwareplatforms running FreeBSD 7.0-PRE/AMD64 and since I upgraded OpenOffice from OO 2.3.0 to 2.3.1 I have massive problems, rendering OO unusuable! Before doing a PR I would like to aks whethere